Thursday, June 21, 2012

Meet Sparkle Abbey

Two Authors for the Price of One!

Hi Marilee

Thanks for inviting us
to your blog.

We are Mary Lee Woods
and Anita Carter and we write the Pampered Pets mystery series together as
Sparkle Abbey. The first two titles in the series are Desperate Housedogs and Get
Fluffy which are out now. The next book: Kitty Kitty Bang Bang is coming in the fall, followed by Yip Tuck
in 2013.

When we were asked by
Bell Bridge Books to write under a pen name we decided to use the names of our
two rescue pets. Sparkle (ML’s cat) and Abby (Anita’s dog.) We're friends
and neighbors so you'll often find us writing at ML's dining room table or
at our local coffee shop.

As you might have
guessed from the titles these are not dark serious sorts of mysteries. What we
hope is that we bring readers a cozy, light-hearted mystery with a few fun bits
about pets.

Sparkle
Abbey (AKA Mary Lee Woods & Anita Carter)

The Pampered
Pets series is set in Laguna Beach, California and alternates between
the perspectives of two cousins: Caro Lamont who is a pet therapist and Melinda
Langston who owns a pet boutique. We alternate books with one of us
(ML) writing the books starring Caro, and the other (Anita) writing the books starring
Melinda. What we share is the overall story line of the series, and
other details such as setting, secondary characters, and a sub-plot with some conflict
between the two cousins over a family heirloom.

It’s been a very exciting
journey for us and it continues to be exciting.Desperate Housedogs just came
out on audio through Audible, and both Desperate
Housedogs and Get Fluffy were
just picked up by Thorndike Press (Large-Print) for their Clean Reads program.

You can find more about us and our upcoming
books at www.SparkleAbbey.com. There’s also a video of the real “Sparkle” doing
some editing work on Desperate Housedogs.